Lasker, Chigorin, Steinitz, and Pillsbury examining the Two Knights Defense.
Chigorin is also watching from the picture frame. St. Petersburg, 1895-6.

@UnityChess

At the 10th USSR Championship (Tbilisi, 1937) - the 2nd-round encounter between Genrikh Kasparian (Yerevan) and Andor Lilienthal (Moscow). The game was drawn in 30 move.

@UnityChess

Vilnius, July 1978. The 7th-round meeting of ex-World Champion Tigran Petrosian and soon-to-be Women's World Champion, Maia Chiburdanidze.

@UnityChess

Utut Adianto (1965- ) is the 1st Indonesian GM (1986). At age 12, he was Jakarta Jr. champ. He won the Indonesian ch at age 17. In 2000, he won the gold medal on board 1 in the Istanbul Olympiad. In 2009, he won a seat in the Indonesian senate and is now the House Speaker.

@UnityChess

Colour footage from the opening round of the 50th edition of the Hastings tournament, 1974-75: Vlastimil Hort v Guillermo García González, Pal Benko v Jonathan Mestel, Ulf Andersson v Michael Stean, Rafael Vaganian v Alexander Beliavsky and István Csom v Albin Planinc.

@UnityChess

🅾️ Unity Chess Photo Gallery
@unitychess

🔹 Mikhail Botvinnik
🔹 Russian-Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Electrical Engineer

@unitychess

🔹 Mikhail Botvinnik
🔹 Russian-Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Electrical Engineer

♦️ Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.

▪️ Full name: Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: August 17, 1911
Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Repino, Russia)
▪️ Died: May 5, 1995 (aged 83)
Moscow, Russia
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ World Champion: 1948–1957 // 1958–1960 // 1961–1963
▪️ Peak rating: 2660 (January 1971)

♦️ Reuben Fine, writing in 1976, observed that Botvinnik was at or near the top of the chess world for thirty years—from 1933, when he drew a match against Flohr, to 1963, when he lost the world championship for the final time, to Petrosian—"a feat equaled historically only by Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz".

♦️ A memorable game by Botvinnik👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik vs Alexander Alekhine
🔸 AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 7, Nov-15
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼

@unitychess

🔹 Mikhail Botvinnik - Alexander Alekhine, AVRO 1938
🔹 PGN format

@unitychess

🔹 Unity Chess Stamp Album
@unitychess

Chess is not an Olympic sport, but chess tourneys were held in conjunction with the Olympic games, starting at Paris, 1900. Lasker won that 17-player event. Two tournaments were held at St Louis, 1904. Marshall and Mlotkowski won those events. Alekhine won at Stockholm 1912.

@UnityChess